Democrats, like Republicans, don’t all take exactly the same position as one another, but there is no doubt which party is more and which is less on the side of correcting this issue. The distance between them is enormous. SE Cupp is the sort of person that I, as an atheist, hold up as an example that being an atheist does not necessarily make one a rational person in other respects.

She speaks of mental healthcare, but let’s be clear that mental healthcare, like all healthcare is only so good as your affordable access to it. Both parties have failed in this regard but only the Democrats have really tried. Also it should be noted that most mentally ill people, including many with problems more severe than many of these shooters, do not commit violent acts like this.

She is 100% dishonest when she says that changes in laws would not have stopped him from buying his gun. The gun laws in various localities and states do stop people from buying guns all the time and work quite well in other countries.

The ONLY part of this that perhaps both parties are just as guilty of is recognizing that this is about US culture as much as it is about access to guns, mental health, school security, extremist ideologies, side effects of going on or off certain prescription drugs, et cetera.

Other countries don’t have this problem because other countries have stricter gun control (including countries with as many or more guns per capita than the USA: “gun control” is not necessarily “anti-gun” but pro-gun, gun owner, and ammunition regulation.), but there are other factors like less expensive, less bureaucratic access to healthcare including mental healthcare.

However, although I remain convinced that easy access to firearms is the single most important factor in why we have these incidents, I think that it is American culture that is the most overlooked aspect because no one wants to admit that other countries don’t have this problem because they simply don’t have as many people whose culture tells them that violence is the solution to everything.

The fantasy of “going out in a blaze of glory” is a huge part of this phenomena and it is one deeply embedded in American culture and often violently instilled in boys by their fathers and other male role models.

Our inconsistent gun laws are to blame for mass shootings, the NRA is to blame for mass shootings, our healthcare system which has been a failure in terms of access to care since the 1950s is to blame for mass shootings, our fragmented law enforcement system is to blame for mass shootings, but so is American culture itself and that is what neither party has the courage to say because both parties have to keep repeating “America is the greatest nation on Earth ad infinitum

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/mass-shootings-guns-mental-health-and-american-culture-itself/feed/0abelashesGun control is not necessarily anti-gunhttps://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/gun-control-is-not-necessarily-anti-gun/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/gun-control-is-not-necessarily-anti-gun/#respondFri, 16 Feb 2018 17:50:32 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1200Continue reading →]]>Switzerland has one of the highest guns per capita ratios of any nation on Earth AND some of the tightest gun control laws. Common sense gun regulations, laws, rules, controls are not necessarily any more “anti-gun” than traffic laws and automobile regulations are “anti-car”. Switzerland tracks every bullet sold, takes away the right own guns from people who make death threats and commit serious violent crimes or have psychosis, requires strict permitting, requires training, licensing, background checks, bans certain guns except for military use but they have more households that own guns than the USA and all of those “gun controls” are the main reason they don’t have these mass shootings like the USA does. A long time ago the NRA was a gun safety organization. Now they are a gun anarchy organization fighting for the “rights” of gun manufacturers and dealers to sell anything they want to anyone they want at anytime they want, no matter what the consequences.
]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/gun-control-is-not-necessarily-anti-gun/feed/0abelashesI’ve been blocked on Facebook for 3 days.https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/ive-been-blocked-on-facebook-for-3-days/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/ive-been-blocked-on-facebook-for-3-days/#respondThu, 08 Feb 2018 01:38:23 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1198Continue reading →]]>Someone complained about an anti-ISIS post I made on Facebook and reported me for “spam” as well. Facebook is blocking me from posting, writing messages in Messenger, and using the “like” function for 3 days.

I complained to Facebook and asked them how many ISIS supporters they currently employ.

I can read everything on Facebook including messages others send me but I cannot respond.

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/ive-been-blocked-on-facebook-for-3-days/feed/0abelashesIf It Wasn’t Necessary To Drop The A-Bomb on Hiroshima Then Why Was It Done?https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/if-it-wasnt-necessary-to-drop-the-a-bomb-on-hiroshima-then-why-was-it-done/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/if-it-wasnt-necessary-to-drop-the-a-bomb-on-hiroshima-then-why-was-it-done/#respondSun, 06 Aug 2017 19:01:42 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1193Continue reading →]]>The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were likely done more out of desire to influence the Soviets than the Japanese. Japan was already preparing to surrender to the USSR and this was known to many in the US intelligence community and the Truman Administration. It was obvious to all involved that the USA and UK would not remain allied with the USSR long after the defeat of the Axis Powers and much like the creation of NATO and the UN, the use of the atomic bomb may have been an action chosen out of a strategy to avoid a “Third World War” between the USA and USSR. Secretary of Defense Henry Stimson was the one who convinced Truman to use the atomic bomb on Japan so the strategy behind it would have likely been his. Stimson was later vocal in promoting the idea that would later be called “Mutually Assured Destruction”.

In the end we can look back and see that regardless of why the A-bombs were used, the results were that Japan surrendered to the USA not the USSR and thus became a capitalist democracy allied with “The West” and the Soviets obtained the necessary scientific knowledge to build their own nuclear arsenal which led to nearly 4 1/2 decades of the USA and USSR fighting each other indirectly through Third World proxies that in many cases originally had nothing to do with the Cold War. The Atomic bomb prevented the USA and USSR from fighting each other directly but led both sides to fund dictators, terrorists, revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries and such all around the world from China to Korea to Vietnam to The Congo to Chile to Nicaragua to El Salvador, et cetera.

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/if-it-wasnt-necessary-to-drop-the-a-bomb-on-hiroshima-then-why-was-it-done/feed/0abelashesThe simple truth that many defenders and detractors of Islam alike seem to not understandhttps://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/the-simple-truth-that-many-defenders-and-detractors-of-islam-alike-seem-to-not-understand/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/the-simple-truth-that-many-defenders-and-detractors-of-islam-alike-seem-to-not-understand/#respondSun, 16 Jul 2017 18:22:45 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1188Continue reading →]]>“Muslim” is about as meaningless a designation as “Christian” in determining the character or trustworthiness or even the political agenda of a person. These are the two largest, most widespread, most practiced religions on Earth and also the most divided by sectarianism and differing interpretations.
]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/the-simple-truth-that-many-defenders-and-detractors-of-islam-alike-seem-to-not-understand/feed/0abelashes20 facts to consider about the Israel/Palestine conflicthttps://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/20-facts-to-consider-about-the-israelpalestine-conflict/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/20-facts-to-consider-about-the-israelpalestine-conflict/#respondSun, 16 Jul 2017 18:10:15 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/20-facts-to-consider-about-the-israelpalestine-conflict/Continue reading →]]>Some facts to consider about the Israel/Palestine issue:

1. The fighting between Jews and Arabs began long before the creation of the modern state of Israel and there were culprits on both sides; Lehi/Stern Gang (Jewish Palestinian Zionist terrorists) and Black Hand (Arab Muslim Jihadist anti-Zionist terrorists)…”both sides” of that pre-Israel conflict in British Mandatory Palestine were guilty of racist ethnic cleansing, religious extremism, theocracy, and the mass murder of innocent civilians)…before the modern state Israel existed.

2. The original borders dividing Jewish and Arab areas were largely decided upon by the British to keep these minorities of Jews and Arabs from killing each other, but were drawn in such a way as to force Arabs and Jews to cross each other’s territory to enter into other parts of their own territory. Most Arabs and Jews were trying to live in peace with each other. It was a minority on both sides doing most of the violence, including the violence against the British.

3. “Palestinian” does not mean “Arab”. Palestine is the Roman name for the region that was later adopted by the British. Jews who lived Palestine were also considered to be “Palestinian” before the modern state of Israel was created.

4. Almost a third of Israel citizens are Palestinian Arabs whose families chose Israel citizenship when it was offered in the early days of Israel. Most of these Arab Israelis are Sunni Muslims. However a sizable minority are Christians and those Israeli citizen Arab Palestinian Christians make up about 80% of all Christians in Israel, so when “Christian Zionists” blindly support one side or the other out of their Christian faith they should consider the fact that most Israel Christians are Palestinian Arabs.

5. Besides that fact that Jews and Arabs are closely related ancient Middle Eastern tribes whose languages and religions are also closely related, there is the fact that genetic studies have repeatedly confirmed that many, if not most, “Arab” Palestinians are partial descendants of the same Jews that most Jewish Israelis are descended from. In other words: Jews, Arabs, Turks, Copts, Amazigh, Kurds, Romans, Greeks and many others left their genetic mark on the people of Palestine and many of the “Arab” Palestinians come from Jewish families who chose to convert to Islam or Christianity and intermarried with Arabs, adopting their culture and language.

6. The early Zionists were largely secular and many were atheists, whose concerns stemmed more from the mistreatment of ethnic Jews globally, than from anything to do with religion or ethnic supremacy. Unfortunately, in order to gain the support of the majority of Jews these secular Zionists made the decision to allow Jewish religious fanatics into the leadership of the movement. Similarly, the Palestinian liberation movement has always had conflicts between different factions, some who just want a fair deal for the Palestinians, others who are secular Arab nationalists, and the Islamists and jihadists.

7. If it were not for the fact that Jerusalem is the holiest city on earth for religious Jews while simultaneously being one of the holiest cities on Earth for Christians and the site of the third holiest Mosque on Earth for Muslims, the conflict would have been resolved long, long ago.

8. The often mentioned “Occupation” refers to the disputed areas of Palestine seized and largely controlled by Israel (while still officially consider to be parts of Palestine) after the 6 Day War and not to the entirety of Palestine or Israel. This is an important point that many around the world who take one side or the other seem to not understand. These are the areas in which Israeli “settlers” keep encroaching in an attempt to eventually officially annex these regions in Israel.

9. In Israel many family law issues are handled by religious courts. Israel has Jewish, Sunni Muslim, Christian, Druze, and Baha’i courts. There are many Arab Israeli politicians and Arab Israeli led political parties and including anti-Zionist parties. There are also anti-Zionist Jewish political movements in Israel.

10. The first Palestinian suicide bombings were the work of the PFLP, a Communist secular Palestinian organization founded and led by George Habash who was a Christian Communist Arab Nationalist Palestinian. Later the anti-Zionist Lebanese Shia Muslim Islamists of Hezbollah took up the practice under the influence of both the PFLP and the Islamic Republic of Iran. At a much later date the practice was taken up by Sunni Muslims in Hamas and other smaller factions.

11. Hamas began as a Sunni Islamist movement providing charitable services to Palestinians including hospitals. Some in Israel erroneously thought that if an ultra-conservative fascistic Islamist group dominated Palestine rather than a Leftist, semi-secular one like the PLO, it would lead to a reduction in the global support for Palestinian causes whether peaceful, political, humanitarian, military or terrorist in nature. This is why Israel donated to Hamas charities in Hamas’s early days. It was a huge miscalculation.

12. Palestinians in Israel and in the West Bank have far more freedom and human rights than those in Gaza and this is because of Hamas.

13. Both Israelis and Palestinians as well as their respective “supporters” around the world often lie and mislead intentionally about events in the region, including by deceptive editing of video and audio and cherry picking of information. When we talk about the conflict we must realize that it is not just Palestinians and Israelis of various ethnic, religious and political persuasions (including those on “both sides” who want justice and peace for “both sides”) but also those who staunchly take one side or the other not out of concern for Palestinians or Israelis but in support of religious and political agendas in which Palestinians and Israelis are mere pawns: End Times prophecy obsessed “Christian Zionists”, Islamists of various Muslim sects globally, Jewish supremacists, neo-Nazis, anti-Arab bigots, anti- Jewish bigots, various types of conspiracy theorists most especially those who blame all of the world’s problems on “Zionists”, the far-left, the far-right, those who think Jews can do no wrong, those who think all Jews are evil, those who think all Arabs are Muslims, those who think all Muslims are terrorists, those who think no Muslims are terrorists, those who think Israel has no right to exist, those who think Palestinians don’t exist, those who lie about history on “both sides”, those Arab countries who treated Palestinian refugees as badly as Israel while using the issue for their own propaganda, those who make excuses for deliberate killing of innocent people (on either side), those who think either side has no right to self-defense, those who want to conflict to continue because it is not their blood being spilled but it somehow serves their religious, political or business interests (selling arms for instance)…

14. It would be better to be an Arab living in Israel than to be a Jew living in the West Bank or Gaza.

15. It would be better to be an Arab living in the West Bank or Israel than to be an Arab living in Gaza where Hamas will oppress you and if Hamas doesn’t shoot rockets at Israel another jihadist faction will and then Israel will retaliate against the civilian homes, hospitals, schools and playgrounds where Hamas and others launch these rockets from. Hamas wants Israel to create more “martyrs” which is why this is done. Israel is often stupid and callous enough to give Hamas exactly what they want: dead civilians.

16. It would be better to be an atheist in Israel than in the West Bank and in the West Bank than in Gaza where it would likely get you killed.

17. It would be better to be LGBT in Israel than in the West Bank and better in the West Bank than in Gaza where it would get you killed.

18. It would be better to be a woman in Israel or the West Bank than to be a woman in Gaza where women are second class citizens.

19. Hamas has always been trying to walk a line between being a Palestinian liberation movement, an Arab Nationalist movement, a Sunni Islamist movement, a Sunni jihadist movement, and a bunch of greedy thieving gangsters.

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/20-facts-to-consider-about-the-israelpalestine-conflict/feed/0abelashesThe biggest terrorism threat to whom?https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/the-biggest-terrorism-threat-to-whom/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/the-biggest-terrorism-threat-to-whom/#respondTue, 30 May 2017 11:13:09 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1172Continue reading →]]>A common debate online is between those most concerned with the threat of jihadist terrorism and those more concerned with the extremist far-right in America. The problem with this debate is that it usually does not acknowledge the reality that who poses the biggest threat to any particular individual or community depends upon the geographical location and ideology and ethnicity or the potential target or target(s) of terrorism and extremism.

While a random far-right extremist is far more likely to be a threat to me and to most of my fellow Americans, ISIS is by far a much, much bigger threat to the average Iraqi and there are other corners of this globe in which the biggest threat comes from individuals and organizations that have nothing to do with Western far-right movements or any form of Islamism.

The biggest threat to the USA and the biggest threat to the civilian population of various Muslim majority countries and the biggest threat to the planet and so on…the questions are different and so are the answers…anti-gun control conspiracy theorist wannabe domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and radical fascist Christian Dominionists on the extreme far-right are the biggest terrorism threats to the USA at home, but those are not the people you are most worried about if you are an Afghan feminist or liberal or atheist or homosexual or a volunteer helping to vaccinate children in Northern Nigeria or rural Pakistan. In those cases your far-right extremist threat would be the likes of the Taliban, Islamic State, Haqqani Network, or even an ultraconservative member of your own family.

Your biggest fear would likely not be the Americans…in fact for many people in Afghanistan their greatest fear has been the pull out of US troops who are supporting and training the Afghan military who is defending them from the Taliban and now ISIS. In other places the biggest threat comes from the government itself: Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea…and in others there long been far-left radical militias killing many innocent, almost trying to compete with the concurrent far-right movements in their societies and often surpassing them. Here I mean countries like Colombia and Peru for example where far-right militias and far-left militias (FARC and Shining Path) had both massacred civilians for decades.

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/the-biggest-terrorism-threat-to-whom/feed/0abelashesNuclear Weapons, the Responsibility to Protect, and the Trump’s creepy “America First” ideologyhttps://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/wmd-r2p-and-the-trumps-creepy-america-first-ideology/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/wmd-r2p-and-the-trumps-creepy-america-first-ideology/#respondSun, 28 May 2017 16:17:07 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1158Continue reading →]]>Nuclear weapons did help save Americans/NATO and the Soviets/Chinese from killing each other in a “hot war” after World War Two was over. They didn’t end the war. Japan was already preparing to surrender to the Russians and this was known to the USA. What the bomb did is cause them to surrender to the US and create a situation where the USA and USSR could not afford to go to war against each other. Instead both sides got involved in every Third World conflict that had nothing to do with them and helped kill millions of innocent people in the process.

Nuclear weapons and all WMD need to be eventually banned worldwide. Their existence is too dangerous. As for war, once one party initiates violence there is nothing the injured party can do that does not encourage further violence. If you fight a bully or you don’t fight a bully, the bully is still going to be a bully, so pacifism in the face of naked aggression is not pro-peace. Instead it is rewarding aggression.

One of the creepiest things about Donald Trump (there are many) is his use of the slogan “America First”. The “America First” movement was a movement of largely Hitler sympathizers and anti-Semites who sought to keep the USA out of World War Two. I support the doctrine of self defense of course and of avoiding conflict whenever possible, but I also strongly support the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) that states that all nations have a responsibility to intervene by whatever peaceful means are possible to stop wanton human rights abuses such as genocide and ethnic cleansing and massacres of peaceful dissidents…and that military options such as no-fly zones and safety corridors should be instituted if diplomacy and sanctions and criticism and negotiations don’t work to stop the carnage.

We not only have the right to defend ourselves but the obligation to defend others. Fighting Hitler was the right thing to do. Removing the Taliban from power in Afghanistan should have happened sooner. It should not have required a 9/11 to realize that a gang of ultra-conservative religious fanatics should not be allowed to take over a country by force and commit horrific crimes against humanity day after day and year after year. Bill Clinton (as wrong as he could be about many things, usually when he sided with the GOP), was correct is saying that one of the worst decisions of his Presidency was not doing enough to prevent the genocide in Rwanda.

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/wmd-r2p-and-the-trumps-creepy-america-first-ideology/feed/0abelashesAfghan activist Nemat Sadat tells his “coming out as gay story” on MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Channel 5 United Kingdom in June during Pride Monthhttps://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/afghan-activist-nemat-sadat-tells-his-coming-out-as-gay-story-on-mtv-nickelodeon-comedy-central-and-channel-5-united-kingdom-in-june-during-pride-month/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/afghan-activist-nemat-sadat-tells-his-coming-out-as-gay-story-on-mtv-nickelodeon-comedy-central-and-channel-5-united-kingdom-in-june-during-pride-month/#respondSun, 28 May 2017 15:57:51 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1146Continue reading →]]>By the way, my gay atheist Afghan friend Nemat Sadat has just announced that he…

“Wrapped up taping for MTV International about my coming out gay in the Afghan community and globally. The segment will air on MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Channel 5 United Kingdom in June during Pride Month.”

…should be great…hope I can catch it on Comedy Central.

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/afghan-activist-nemat-sadat-tells-his-coming-out-as-gay-story-on-mtv-nickelodeon-comedy-central-and-channel-5-united-kingdom-in-june-during-pride-month/feed/0abelashesWhy “Christianity, capitalism, and democracy” cannot save us from Islamic extremist terrorismhttps://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/why-christianity-capitalism-and-democracy-cannot-save-us-from-islamic-extremist-terrorism/
https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/why-christianity-capitalism-and-democracy-cannot-save-us-from-islamic-extremist-terrorism/#respondSun, 28 May 2017 15:23:45 +0000http://abelashes.wordpress.com/?p=1104Continue reading →]]>Today I responded to the following comment regarding the recent murder of two men who were defending two young women from anti-Muslim hate speech on a train in Portland, Oregon:

“If Islamic folks didn’t exist we wouldn’t have a problem at all in this world of ours. Christianity, capitalism and democracy rule….over and out.”

My response was as follows:

Christianity and Islam are both based on Judaism and Zoroastrianism (the religion that created “monotheistic” dualism: God/Devil, Heaven/Hell) and most of the evil shit in Islam was copied from Judeo-Christian “holy scripture”. Most Muslims don’t condone sex slavery, but ISIS can find it condoned in the Koran and Hadith, as well as in the Bible upon which the Abrahamic faith of Islam is also based.

KORAN: Quran (33:50) – “O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee”

BIBLE: Numbers 31:17-18 – “Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”

You are right that there are horrible things in Islamic scripture that encourage this kind of terrorism and hate crime, but there are things that contradict it as well and I could be here all day sharing Bible verses calling for the execution of non-believers (like myself), homosexuals, innocent children, people who “curse” their parents, et cetera.

As for “democracy”, I am 100% for it as long as their are human rights and civil rights for minorities and oppressed groups built into the constitution and law and a strong separation of religion from the affairs of government. The mental, social, political, religious disease that spawns this terrorism has a name and that name is “theocracy” (religious government) which is the cause that ISIS and al Qaeda and Boko Haram and the Taliban and Abu Sayyaf Group are all fighting for….Christianity had its period of total religious control of government and still has its occasional killer fanatics. If one chooses religion it is the business of the individual….no government, school, parent, society, or culture has the right to force anyone to “believe” anything, especially not something rooted in superstition and make-believe. Without secularism and universal human rights protections, “democracy” is just mob rule by the pen rather than the sword…a way for majorities to oppress minorities “peacefully” and legally.

…and as for “capitalism”, I’m all for it as long as it is tempered with some sensible “socialism”. The most stable, dynamic, healthy, and equitable economies are all some form of “mixed economy” in which some things are privately owned and some things are publicly owned. The silly notion of capitalism versus socialism should have died with the Cold War. Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK, France, Japan, Holland, Finland, Norway, Canada, even the USA, are all examples of various forms of “mixed economies”. Pure capitalism and pure socialism don’t work and never could. Neither business nor government is inherently bad or good and both have their place in a healthy economy.

It is also far past time for people in the so-called “West” to stop assuming that everyone from a Muslim majority country is a Muslim. If you were to get to know my friends and associates you would find a huge number of atheists from and in Muslim majority countries….not to mention some very liberal (feminist, pluralist, pro-democracy, anti-terrorism, pro-LGBT rights) and secular Muslims (support separation of religion and state). The thing people need to realize is that there are nearly as many schools of thought within Islam as there are within Christianity….Martin Luther King and the KKK both considered themselves to be “Christian”…it is the same when it comes to Islam….they are the two largest (most practiced) religions on Earth after all.

The post that started this conversation (complete with my references to songs by the great Australian rock band Midnight Oil, whose concert I recently attended in Denver, Colorado:

White Skin Black Heart…this guy was so paranoid that every Muslim (or anyone he thought might be a Muslim) was plotting terrorism like ISIS that he ended up killing innocent people by cutting their throats like ISIS…tired of America being a Redneck Wonderland.

Just a few days before this another Neo-Nazi (in Tampa, Florida), who also idolized American agnostic gun-nut conspiracy theorist right-wing terrorist (from a Catholic background) Timothy McVeigh, converted to Islam and when his neo-Nazi roommates made fun of him he murdered them for it….extremism is extremism, murder is murder, theocracy is theocracy, bigotry is bigotry, terrorism is terrorism (although I don’t mind when jihadist wannabes and Neo-Nazis leave my planet by killing each other.)

Both this Neo-Nazi convert to Islam and the anti-Muslim Neo-Nazi killer in Portland are huge admirers of the late US right-wing extremist terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh.

…and finally I will leave you with some educated Muslims doing something good in the world…supporting science based medicine over ignorance and baseless conspiracy theories that spread disease…(this is not the Taliban’s version of Islam thankfully):

]]>https://abelashes.wordpress.com/2017/05/28/why-christianity-capitalism-and-democracy-cannot-save-us-from-islamic-extremist-terrorism/feed/0abelashesThe three Abrahamic faiths all have scripture that can be used to justify terrorism and tyrannyThe three Abrahamic faiths all have scripture that justifies the murder of innocent nonbelieversBoth sides of the Israeli Palestianian conflict are controlled and manipulated by religious fanatics driven by hateful scriptureBrutal Islamic Sharia Law is based on brutal judeo-Christian Biblical lawJihadist violence is about far-right extremist theocratic hatred for all things secular and liberal